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Elegiac poetry

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    An elegy on the unfortunate, though glorious deaths, of that most noble Prince and famous general Frederick Duke of Schomberg, and the reverend and truly valiant Dr. George Walker : who were both unhappily slain at the battle of Duleek, near Dublin in Ireland, which was fought on the first of this instant July.

    | Date: [1690]
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    An Elegy on the death of the Princesse Elizabeth in Carisbrooke Castle : August 6: 1655.

    | Date: [1655]
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    An Elegy upon ye immature losse of the most vertuous Lady Anne Riche.

    | Date: [1655]
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    An elegie on the death of that learned and pious divine Mr. John Gibbon, late minister of St. Anne Black-Friers, London.

    | Date: [1663?]
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    A funeral elegy humbly dedicated to the renowned memory of the honourable, Thomas Danforth Esq. of Cambridge : sometimes deputy governour in the colony of the Massachusetts-Bay, and president of the province of main; and one of His Majesties honourable council. Judge of the superiour court in the providence of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England; who (after he had long served his generation by the will of God in several high stations) did to our inconceivable loss, but his unparallel'd gain, rest from all his labours, on the sacred day of rest, the memorable 5th of November : Anno Domini. 1699.

    Danforth, John, 1660-1730 | Date: [1699]

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